And to add to the hilarity, the item they grab could be lady's underwear. *snicker*
A worthy prize indeed....*snickers*
Anyway, I'll go post a bio here, and see if I can't add some testosterone to this here ship.
Character Name: Tim o' the winds
Gender: Male
Job/Role: Helmsmen
Age: 35
General Appearance: Averaged sized and broad-shouldered, Tim looks every part the stereotypical sailor. His face, half of it hidden by a full beard and dirty blond bangs, sports a distinctive scar from the bottom of his right eye to where it disappears under the cloth bandages he wears as a headband, near his temple. His eyes are at least as distinctive, the grayish blue color drawing in those who gaze into them like a doomed ship into a ghostly mist. His clothes, dirty and mismatched in color, are scavenged together from whatever loot he was able to plunder, the pride of his collection being a navy jacket with the buttons ripped off. A flintlock pistol and a cutlass are dangling from a dirty silken sash around his waist, ready to be used at any odd time. A silver colored seagull often joins him, sitting on his shoulder or hovering on some air currents nearby.
Current Goal/Purpose: Earn enough money to retire, and staying alive while striving to do so.
General Personality: Tim is a levelheaded, deliberate man. He rarely does anything without a reason as long as he's on the open seas. He can act brutish, maniacal, or seductive, but that's mostly what it will be...an act. On shore, he gets insecure, fidgety, and sometimes downright depressed, as if some part of him is missing, left behind between the waves.
He seems to value freedom above all else, and sometimes has trouble with following orders if he sees them as senseless or suicidal. He's been known to stand at the wheel laughing during the nastiest of storms, and to seemingly drift off into thought during lulls in the weather. All in all, his personality remains a mystery to most people around him, and his solitude tends to only make it worse.
Special Mention: It is rumored that Tim and his seagull O'Reilly share a bond of mutual understanding that goes beyond anything that could occur naturally between man and animal. Wether this rumor is true or not remains unconfirmed.
General History: Tim was born as the son of a whore in some shit-hole of a town no-one but the pirates who burned it to the ground would remember. He was picked up by those very same pirates to serve as a cabin boy (amongst other...even less enviable duties) and thus found himself having to adapt to life as a pirate at a very early age. Nevertheless he found a way to survive, occasionally slipping away from his duties to join the look-out in the crows nest, and even befriending a seagull which he named O'reilly.
It was when crewmen saw him talking to the seagull that they started calling him Tim o' the winds, joking that he always had his head in the clouds. The name stuck with him as he grew up to be an excellent sailor, and able fighter. He served amongst several ships, most of them pirate ships, but few fishing, whaling and merchant ships. The latest of these ships is the Sea Raven, a ship he has worked on for the past five years, earning himself a place as one of the helmsmen during that time, and a reputation for being a solid member of the crew.